Four Arrested in Sexual Assault of Minor

Four Anchorage area men have been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of a seventeen year old homeless girl. Anchorage Police say the four men, ages 19 to 21, are alleged to have detained, abused and sexually assaulted the girl in a home in suburban Eagle River. APD spokeswoman Dani Myren says the girl was picked up initially by three of the men

“All three of those suspects gave her drugs and alcohol, threatened her, physically abused her and repeatedly sexually assaulted her. At one point, the following day, the three perpetrators were joined by another man, named Joseph Sanford, and the alleged abuse of the young female continued. The sexual assaults reportedly took place over a two day period.”

Myren says the attacks occurred in March. She says the girl is now safe with her family.

The four men are Alex Metzger, age 19 , Ryan Poole, age 21 , Jesse Contreras, age 19 and Joseph Sanford, age 20

APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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